I Am Malala Book Review

My Challenge Book: This book was a challenge for me because it is an autobiography, meaning this book was also nonfiction and full of facts, which is hard for me to read because I find it not as interesting as fiction. Also this book is based in Pakistan so I wasn’t able to relate to a lot of things referenced in this book and I had to do a great deal of research to actually understand what was happening.
Plot Summary: This book is about a young girl facing the wrath of the Taliban and gaining the courage to start standing up for women’s rights in education. Malala Yousafzai is an average girl who grew up in Pakistan going to her Father’s school every day, studying, and was the top student in her class. She goes about her life as usual, going to school with her friends. Now day’s though, people listen to the news station that the Taliban release saying girls are bad Muslims if they go to school, and they’re threatening to do bad things if they do go, which then of course, causes several girl students to leave school and work at home. Some girls still want an education and go to school so eventually the Taliban do start shooting people and bombing schools! This is exactly what Malala doesn’t want. She believes everyone should have an equal right to get a good education! So she starts to speak up and as she does interviews with the BBC her voice keeps getting heard, so now she is the Taliban’s number one target. As life carries on Malala keeps going to school, and one day on her way home, two men come onto her school bus and shoot her three times hitting her face, and two of her friends. Malala then comes to a slow recovery but survives! She is now living in Birmingham leading a campaign towards children’s guarantee to get an education in the world.
Favorite Part in the Book: My favorite part in this book is when Malala recovers from the bullet she took to the face. I really like this part because she is at this point just thankful that she’s living